A small world

Arrived in Wanganui at around 2 pm yesterday. Checked into the Siena Motor Lodge which I had booked through WOTIF, due to its good reviews on the Net.

Had a drink at the local with Inventory of Keeping Stock, and then headed to the Red Lion Inn to catch up with Hamish McDouall (Labour’s 2008 and 2011 candidate for Whanganui). 

At the table next to us, was an old classmate from Otago University, who had been at Carrington Hall with me in 1987. She was on the way up North, so like me only in Wanganui for a day. The odds of running into an old friend at a pub in Wanganui, which we both happened to be at for just one day must be pretty damn low.

But the odds got shorter even more. Turns out they were also staying at the Siena Motor Lodge, and in the room next door to mine.

So as they say, it really is a small world after all.